Items carried at US Capitol by some in the mob, per court filings:
Guns, bear spray, hockey stick, baseball bat, taser, sharpened flagpole, knives, scissors, tourniquet, plastic knuckles, lacrosse stick
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Tomahawk ax
Zip ties
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Strobe light
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Rope and gallows
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Tree Branch, Pipe, Stick, Baton, Crutch, Club
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Fire extinguisher
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(stolen) shields
Add: Steel-toed boots
Add: Four foot rod
ADD: Metal whip
ADD: Sledgehammer
ADD: Rocks
Add: "Eye damaging" laser devices
ADD: Large speaker
Add: Pitchfork
ADD: Wooden plank and tossed bottle
ADD: "Poles with nails in them"
ADD: Coffee tumbler and bucket of liquid
ADD: Bottles
ADD: PVC pipe
ADD: Laser pointer
ADD: Metal spear
ADD: Pitchfork
ADD: Large speaker equipment, which broke an officer's foot when thrown
ADD: Gadsden Flag
ADD: Plywood
ADD: Police barricade as battering ram
ADD: Large Trump sign
ADD: "Electroshock weapon" and "wasp spray"
ADD: Large metal trashcan
(video via court exhibit released by US Justice Dept)
ADD: Wooden table leg
ADD: Skateboard
ADD: Hard plastic pylon
ADD: "Loaded Taurus Revolver"
ADD: Raid insecticide and WD-40 sprayed at police. Per interviews with officers
ADD: Helmet and crow bar
ADD: "Orange traffic barrier"
ADD: "Hard-knuckle tactical gloves"
ADD: Broom stick
ADD: "Large wooden object"
(That's what the court filing says)
ADD: Sledgehammer
ADD: "Ballistic plate carrier" and crowbar
ADD: "Trump flag being thrown like a javelin"
ADD: "White piece of wood"
ADD: Plastic bottle
ADD: "Water bottles"
ADD: Furniture Leg
ADD: Red/orange-colored barrier
ADD: Tabletop
ADD: "Parts of chairs"
ADD: "Metal sign frame"
ADD: Police baton used against officer
ADD: Flashlight
ADD: A**KICKING BOOTS
ADD: A thrown scooter... which appears to tangle the feet of police in this bodycam video ===>
ADD: "Full beer can"
ADD: “wooden handrail”
ADD: Batteries.... thrown at police
ADD: Battering ram device
ADD: "American flag on a light-tan colored pole"
ADD: Blue Trump flag
ADD: "A metal sign so large it was on wheels and took multiple people to lift it"
(per newly filed court motion by Justice Dept in case against defendant Thomas Hamner)
ADD: "Half of a softball"
(Defendant accused of using ball and flagpole and smashing window glass goes on trial tomorrow)
ADD: "Plastic Pipe"
ADD: "Pointed metal attachments on .. wooden pole"
ADD: Velvet rope stand
ADD: "Captain America-style shield affixed to a small wooden-handled broom"
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This ===>
ADD: Huge metal-framed Trump sign with wheels "about the size of a human head"
ADD: Bricks
ADD: "Metal knuckled gloves"
ADD: Coat rack
ADD: Enormous 2x4 beams
(Via video court exhibit released by US Justice Dept)
ADD: Enormous US flag
(Via video court exhibit released by US Justice Dept)
ADD: Railing
In newly unsealed Jan 6 case against James McNamara of Chicago, prosecutors allege he used a "railing" to ram a Capitol door several times
ADD: Stairwell beam
Police testimony at trial of Capitol riot defendant Bigo Barnett said a stairwell beam was thrown at police by someone in the mob (not by Barnett)
Police captain said the beam and other thrown items helped rioters breach the police line
ADD: "Hammer"
In court filing today, Jan 6 defendant from California acknowledges carrying hammer on his belt loop... citing concern about "Antifa"
ADD: "Grappling Hook"
Feds say Garret Miller carried the hook while amid mob on Jan 6. They argued "Miller was at the forefront of every barrier overturned, police line overrun, and entryway breached.."
A judge sentenced Miller to 38 months prison yesterday
ADD: A *lit* and thrown device that appeared to be a firecracker
(From sentencing memo and this week's hearing in Capitol riot case of David Lee Judd ====> )
ADD: "Large hunting knife in sheath on his belt"
From new US Justice Dept court filing... seeking pretrial detention in Capitol riot case of Kenneth Bonawitz, who's accused of dive-tackling two police officers
ADD: "Pepper gel"
At today's sentencing of Capitol riot defendant AIden Bilyard, prosecutors said his homemade pepper gel is "thicker, easier to aim acccurately"... "designed to cause pain"
ADD: "Billy Club" .... "Tire Thumper"
Per sentencing memo from defendant Shelly Stallings.. about her husband
ADD: "Metal coffee mug" thrown at police
Per newly filed Justice Dept case against Illinois defendant
ADD: Velvet rope
ADD: Wooden pallet
Latest weapon alleged to have been used in the US Capitol siege. According to newly posted charging documents in the case of Ronald Bryan of Louisiana
Scorching criticisms of Supreme Court handling of Trump "presidential immunity" argument from Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), a Jan 6 Select Cmte member, on MSNBC
"Rather than decide the case before them, they are going off on tangents that will lead to further delay"
(MORE)
Rep. Lofgren (D-CA): "It can't be in our system that a president who tried to overturn the government to stay in power will not be tried before the next election. This is really outrageous."
Rep. Lofgren (more) to MSNBC: "He has indicated an intention to be dictator on day one. He said that he intends to.. terminate parts of the constitution. He doesn't intend to live under the rule of law. He is a grave threat to the constitutional order. It looks like his partners in crime will be the Supreme Court"
STAND BY: I'll be in studio for our @CBSNews special coverage of the Supreme Court arguments on Trump's claim of "presidential immunity" in the 2020 election conspiracy case
It's worth noting: "Presidential Immunity" is just one of the claims Trump made to disrupt the Special Counsel's prosecution for election subversion and Trump's ties to the Jan 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol
(more)
1 - Trump's defense *unsuccessfully* sought for Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself, arguing she'd made statements alluding to Trump in her other Jan 6 cases
Including when she said one particular Capitol rioter had a: "blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”
HEADS UP: Sentencing is beginning now in high-level Capitol riot case of Andrew Taake
He was accused of brandishing metal whip against police… and of assaulting police with chemical spray and causing injuries
(More)
Judge Carl Nichols has just read an excerpt from a police officer’s victim impact statement. Officer said he/she was “immediately blinded” by the chem spray… and that it felt “like living death”.. and officer struck head on scaffolding after being sprayed
Taake sits at defense table in orange jail jumpsuit scribbling notes as defense attorney argues over sentencing guidelines. He’ll address court later.
Ahead of today's sentencing of Jan 6 misdemeanor defendant Kimberly Dragoo, feds note post-arrest statements:
"Once Kimberly’s federal charges were unsealed and reported on by a local news organization, she reposted the news alert and commented that “No charges have been filed!!!"
They say she also wrote to local school board to say she was "innocent until proven guilty"... two months *after* she pleaded guilty
Hoo boy. This hearing didn't go quietly. A set of arguments and proclamations unlike I've heard in other Jan 6 cases
Stand by
Kim & Steve Dragoo of Missouri pleaded guilty to misdemeanor parading charge. They entered Capitol *twice* amid the mob, which often captures the attention of Justice Dept & judges
Their defense lawyer is a familiar name: Bruce Castor, who represented Donald Trump at impeachment
"They loaded up a van with weapons and traveled across the country with the single-minded purpose to obstruct the certification of the Electoral College results"
Feds seek 8-years prison for Jan 6 defendants linked to 3-%ers, found guilty of conspiracy
MORE: Justice Dept seeks 8-years prison for Erik Warner, Derek Kinnison & Ronald Mele
78 months prison for Felipe Martinez
"On Jan 6.. wearing tactical gear & carrying weapons, they knowingly, voluntarily & enthusiastically joined forces with others in forming a mob that accomplished their goal—for a time"
Notable that the feds include some pre-Jan 6 messages from group
"On December 25, 2020, Kinnison messaged the group, invoking the American revolution of 1776 and writing, “[W]e have reached our ‘throw off such government’ moment.”
The US House Rules Committee takes up the following bills next week ("messaging bills" that will not become law)
"Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act"
"Affordable Air Conditioning Act"
"Refrigerator Freedom Act"
"Clothes Dryers Reliability Act"
"Liberty in Laundry Act"
"Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act"
Democrats plan some amendments on these appliance-related bills, including one that'd require the House debate and pass Ukraine aid
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) offers an amendment that would "commission a study to determine the number of appliances confiscated by the Biden-Harris administration"